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- A primer for all those who wish to familiarize themselves with Einstein's theories at the absolute beginner's level
- Explains all the fundamental concepts of special and general relativity clearly and easily
- Enriched with many exercises and beautiful illustrations
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book is enhanced throughout with many useful exercises and beautiful illustrations to aid understanding.
The topics covered include: Lorentz transformations, length contraction and time dilation, the twin paradox (and other paradoxes), Minkowski spacetime, the Einstein equivalence principle, curvature of space and spacetime, geodesics, parallel transport, Einstein’s equations of general relativity, black holes, wormholes, cosmology, gravitational waves, time machines, and much more.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Daniel R. Mayerson
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Anthony M. Charles
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Randall Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Joseph E. Golec
About the authors
Daniel R. Mayerson received his PhD in theoretical high energy physics from the University of Amsterdam in 2015. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan from 2015 to 2018. Since Fall 2018 he is a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut de Physique Théorique at the CEA Saclay in France. His main research interests are using string theory to understand black holes and their interior.
Anthony M. Charles received his PhD in theoretical high energy physics from the University of Michigan in 2018. Since Fall 2018 he is a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at KU Leuven in Belgium. His research is on various aspects of black holes, string theory, and supergravity, with a focus on understanding black hole entropy.
Joseph E. Golec received his BS in physics in 2017 and is currently a PhD student at the University of Michigan. His research is in observational cosmology, specificallythe observation of the anisotropy and polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Relativity: A Journey Through Warped Space and Time
Authors: Daniel R. Mayerson, Anthony M. Charles, Joseph E. Golec
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18914-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18913-6Published: 22 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18914-3Published: 14 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 170
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Classical Mechanics